The artist/professor whose work we are going to experience this morning, has a blog at MIT; go here to check it out!
More here as well.
cheers,
bill nericcio
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The site for all writing assignments for SDSU Anthropology 439, Summer 2009; also, an archive of postings from Anthro 439, Summer 2007.
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John Maeda Gallery (With Spell-check and Proof Read Included)
When I first walked into the gallery I was shocked about how current and new this art was. It was literally full of I-pods and computers. I found myself walking around and examining the gallery with great curiosity. After I realized that there was supposed to be a mathematical pattern to the art, I went to the beginning and started viewing the gallery “correctly.” Seeing this gallery and the fact that it was titled Myspace immediately made me think of my own personal Myspace account. In the beginning of the gallery it begins with the most primal and basic computer, and slowly advances through art and technology to grow into something almost too great and overpowering. I came under this impression when viewing his art that as the technology progressed, it began to grab and pull, and almost capture. The art was saying to me that we have become so tied up with our computers, Myspace accounts, cell phone, television, Facebook accounts, I-pods, and other electronics, that they have started to control us. It seems as though the trouble is that we have become too attached to our electronics, and now it would be almost impossible to break away from them. I know that I have become attached to certain electronics such as my I-pod and cell phone, where a few years earlier I would have been fine without them. Maeda's art seems to say that our electronic advances are beneficial, but also poses the question, that at what point do they take over and control us, rather then us them? It is hard to be without, but it may be a good idea to stop our electronic surge every once in awhile and come back to what we began out as, without all the technological binds.
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